cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to …

prominent role in legislative debates about using taxation as a principal tool to discourage smoking. In addition to informing …

adopted ENDS taxes. We use two large national surveys (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System …) to estimate the impact of ENDS taxes on youth tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth ENDS consumption, with … cigarette smoking. We conclude that the unintended effects of ENDS taxation may considerably undercut or even outweigh any …

was employed to evaluate: [1] health benefits (premature deaths averted); [2] health expenditures regarding smoking … health gains, Out-of-Pocket (OOP) savings, and financial risk protection against smoking-related diseases. …

This paper studies the relationship between Colombia's legal cigarette sales, smuggling, and tobacco taxes. Exploring … first the impact taxes have on legal and illegal cigarettes, we find that taxes correlate negatively to legal sales and …